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12 Must-Know Stats About Online Fundraising, Social Media, and Mobile Technology

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Source: 2016 Donor Loyalty Study. 32% of NGOs worldwide have a written social media strategy and 34% have paid for advertising on social media. Source: 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report. Source: 2017 Benchmarks Study. Email and social media are the first apps opened.

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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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10 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Study and implement modern design trends. At the early stages of a redesign, spend a few hours studying the websites of large nonprofits similar to yours in mission and programs. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins.

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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Help Young Cambodian Bloggers Join the Global Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea is to bring together students, professional Bloggers, writers, NGO workers, media, and tech gurus from within and outside Cambodia to share and learn more from each other on about how the ICT (including Open Source Software and Web2.0 tools) can make their study, work, and life easier.

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BlogHers, Gender Blogging, and Linux Chix in Cambodia!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She could not attend the Cambodian Bloggers Summit because she is in the US on a fellowship studying for an advanced degree. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. Learn more about the comments.